What won't Santa be touching with a bargepole?

[littlemisscomper]

Is there anything you're flatly refusing to get the kids this year? I always avoid toilet-humour themed board games/story books/sweets and character toys.

Dave Gorman. Honestly, he's at the top of Small Son's list. I'm sure Mrs Gorman and Baby Gorman would have some objections.

It turns out that Small just wants to have dinner with him rather than have him follow him about as his own personal statistics-based jester. But it still seems a bit of a difficult ask.

Pie Face - no thanks or anything that electrocutes you or terrifies you. Also bastard glitter which won't come out of the carpet ever. A relative bought a fingerling - mentioned up the page - quite cute but not much playing power - just says same sounds and opens/closes it's eyes - best to wait for the sales in January! There are usually a few things I 'disapprove' of from Santa in the stocking!

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I used to spend years looking at the years top 10 Christmas gifts with my cousin wondering who had the money to spend £100 plus on individual presents. She had children years before me and fell into the top toys trap and now im avoiding all adverts (we have netflix only) to stop advert power.

Top five in DD's list;
Dog
Frog
Fennec Fox
Ferret
Johnny Depp

She won't be getting any!

seasonal shitty witty tat. Like santas that boogie, snowmen that sing jinglebells. My otherwise adorable F-i-L has an obsession with this crap and I dread it all coming out as he thinks I have no sense of humour.

Every piece of fragile plastic dolly tat DD4 sees in the post office/newsagents/magazine ads. She has some lovely dolls and is getting piles of clothes for them instead (eBay and Etsy are my friends!).

Chocolate coins. I know it's an inexpensive present but the feckers sit in the fridge on the door shelf of doom and stay there till the following Christmas where they get binned and get replaced by a new pack.

Benedikte2 Most of the fingerlings on eBay, Amazon, Wish etc are fake and in some cases not even cheaper. On a couple of bargain sites I follow on Facebook have been inundated with complaints about them. One lady got a fake - so bought it off a selling site and didn’t realise it wasn’t genuine - the battery exploded whilst her child was playing with it. Other ones don’t do anything, some aren’t even mechanical. Loads of people are trying to get refunds for the ones they have bought from Amazon because they haven’t arrived and the sellers are eithe not replying or stopped selling on eBay. Sorry for the essay, I hate the thought of people getting ripped off.

I won’t be buying luvabella - I have seen one in Ebay for £995!! Hatchimal, I did get the little collectible ones though, and I won’t be getting the chocolate coin maker either!

Glittery - Paw Patrol Lookout Tower is £87 in Smyths? X

Ooh that's quite a big saving protecting. Thanks. Will have a look.
Still bloody expensive though!

Those luvabellas are hideous, fortunately dd hasn’t asked for one. Those games that shits/snots are banned-rank. And pie face is just messy.

Has no one experienced there magic sand going really crumbly and not sticking/clumping anymore? All of ours has gone that way, and it’s puttimg me off getting more

Luvabella! It's £100 and freaks me the hell out! It looks like one of those 19th century ventriloquist dummies.

DD1 has traded up from the chocolate coin maker (which she has never got) to the Sprinkle Stix this year DH said if I buy her that we will be divorcing.

I also refuse to buy her the Num Noms lip gloss truck - which is the only thing she really really wants. It just looks such a mess and a waste of money. I feel really bad about that one though and will probably relent and regret it.

DD2 has only asked for a scooter which I'm more than happy to get.

A Fingerling will never be coming in to this house! I thought they were completely hideous (sorry!) even before I realized they were going to a "thing" this year. Fortunately my son doesn't tend to get caught up in trends (he's never shown the slightest interest in fidget spinners, for example) so I'm hopeful he won't want one. Yet to do his Christmas list though!

Oh we love kinetic sand and nerf guns in our house. We have a huge garage that’s now their playroom and they build proper forts and barricades and have loads of fun with the nerf guns. Kinetic sand is kept in large tubs under their beds, the tubs are big enough that none of it goes on the floor and if a bit does go over the sides it’s really easy to clean up.

We won’t be buying Hatchimals, though i think I’ve managed to persuade both of them that they aren’t worth it, might get them a small hatchimals collectable egg each for their stocking though. Fingerlings, they are stupid money over here for what they are. A game called “Silly Sausage” Oh and real live cats.